American astronomer who has made numerous observations to attempt to fix the value of the Hubble
constant.
Sandage showed a major modification was necessary in the value, even after corrected by Baade since
red-sensitive photographic plates indicated that some of the "stars" Hubble had identified in distant
galaxies
were actually HII regions.
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